In the News: At Forum on Evolution, Beliefs Remain Static

>From the article:
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By Valerie Strauss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 6, 2005; Page A10

The three high school friends stood together at a table, goggles
protecting their eyes and putty knives in hand, as they delicately
split a block of ancient earth in search of fish fossils that
scientists said were 10 million years old.

Emily Howell, 17, a Gaithersburg High School senior, said she didn't
believe the scientists because, to her, nothing on Earth is more than
6,000 years old, and Charles Darwin's theory that living things have
evolved from a common ancestry over eons is a myth.

Her classmate, Emily Myron, also a 17-year-old senior, said she
respects her friend but "believes in evolution wholeheartedly" because
there is "far too much evidence" to deny it.

At her side was lifelong friend Katie Zdilla, 17, a Sherwood High
School senior who said she wasn't sure of the age of the 2 1/2 -inch
stickleback fish fossil the girls found by separating layers of
crumbly, dusty diatomaceous earth. She believes, she said, in some
parts of evolution and not others but certainly that God was
responsible for everything.

The students were attending a two-day conference on evolution at the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase at a time when polls
show that at least half of Americans doubt Darwin's theory of
evolution. That has made the teaching of evolution one of the most
contested issues facing educators.
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